Frog in the Boiling Water

The "frog in the boiling water" problem comes from situations where things start off "okay" maybe even good, and over time things get worse a little at a time with no single change in a scenario being bad enough to truly trigger an "evaluation response." This can apply to almost anything and is not specifically an IT topic.

The term comes from the fact that if you drop a frog into boiling water, it knows that it is boiling and jumps out instantly. But if you put a frog into luke water and warm it up slowly over time, the frog doesn't notice the changes and will boil alive, which is bad.

In life we face the same things. Maybe it is our work environment, slowly the quality of our job gets worse and worse. But just a little at a time and over a few years we forget how nice it used to be and now we are unhappy and don't realize that work has gotten so much worse because no single thing happened to make us take notice. Or maybe our network gets slowly worse over time, just one little thing at a time. First it is an unnecessary package, then it is no longer using GPOs and eventually we are giving everyone local admin accounts without realizing what we have done.

This is a life factor that everyone needs to understand and look out for and provides a powerful tool for talking about problems in our careers, jobs, systems and lives.

In physics terms, it's like the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle... particles dance around and you can't tell from just one position measurement if the particle has moved or not, you need a trend of movements to know and no single movement would make you realize that you need to take more measurements or track them.

The term comes from the fact that if you drop a frog into boiling water, it knows that it is boiling and jumps out instantly. But if you put a frog into luke water and warm it up slowly over time, the frog doesn't notice the changes and will boil alive, which is bad.

How can a frog live without a brain? That is something that isnt explained.
How is it not dead if it has no brain? I understand their brains arent as complex as a humans, but can they actually live without them?